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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

A New YORK dispatch says that anti-Pow-
derby delegates will represent District 40 at
the Knights Of Labor National Convention IN
Minneapolis There was a stormy time at the
district election T. b. Mcclure and other
Home Club and admins tration candidates
were defeated The vote in several instances
was close, and there will probably be a num-
Der of contests.
The International Stove holders Union
has suddenly determined upon demanding an
advance in wages varying from 10 to Is per
cent over all the United States and Canada,
says a Pittsburgh dispatch The men are to
continue ut work for two weeks in order TO
finish what patterns they are at present en-
gagged upon Then a strike is to be ordered,
and il at the end OF week the advance is not
conceded per cent additional Is to be asked
There are in the union IL. 600 registered men,
bers, and 1000 more who can be accounted
for. In this city there are about two hundred
and seventy five, and the largest numbers are
in Toronto, st Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
BAD INDIANS.

A Battle with Colorow's Band Near Range
ly, Col.-Eight Redskins Killed and Sew
,eral Whites Wounded.
DENVER dispatches give the following par
ticulars of an engagement between Colorow's
band of Utes and the militia, near Rangely,
Col:
The fight opened at ESQ a. IN. near
Rangely, about sixty miles west OF Meekor, the
Utes beginning the battle. The Utes who came
into Major Leslies camp ON Wolf Greek the day
before for Il talk skipped out during thunder
storm that night. Major Leslie at once ordered
mount, ana the boys followed the Utes over
the hills through the dark and the drenching
rain. Joined by Kendall with forty picked men
and Pritchards scouts. the troops and party
came up with the Indians about daybreak.
The militia and cowboys fought the Indians
all day, and for three hours the battle was Il
hard one. Both sides fought Indian style shell
tered by rocks and trees ME militia made a
gallant record, keeping cool and self possessed.
The fighting was done on foot as the horses OF
the troops We're worn out by hard and rapid
riding over the rough mountain trails. The In
dams are said TO have lost eight warriors in
killed and wounded. and the troops suffered the
following losses as far as reported: Jack Ward,
OF Meeker, killed; Lieut. Folsom, of Aspen,
wounded Ed Foltz. OF Apen, shot through the
cheek J.. Stewart, of Leadville, wounded Doc
Gallery of Leadvlle, wounded-uot seriously I;
DIR. Dumont, of Meeker, wounded.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
CHEATED THE GAILOWS
How Bill Langley, of Texas. Is Said
to Have Been Hanged Years
Ago and Still Lives.
Fort Worth CTexas) special

Campbell Langley, father of the once
notorious and not yet forgotten Bill Lang
lev, removed to Bell County, Texas, from
near Lexington, Lee County, Texas,
twelve years ago. During his residence in
Lee and Bell counties he has been known
as q well-to- do farmer and an upright citi-
zen. CAMPBELL Langley to-day told n story
to some of the leading citizens which, but
for his well-known Christian character,
would be put down as widest fiction. He
says that his son, Bill Langley, who was
publ ely hanged twelve years ago in Gid
dings. Lee County, by Sheriff Jim Brown,
in L. presence of several thousand people,
was not hurt at all, but was allowed TO es-
cape.
Ahe father says when the Supreme Court
and the Governor refused to intervene in
Bills behalf rich uncle in California
came to the rescue with "a 900, with which
he worked upon the sympathy Of the sheriff
charged with the execution of the sentence;
that the friends of Bill were permitted to
arrange things so that when the drop fell
the weight of the body fell upon the iron
hoop supported by an appropriate body
harness In such a way that he escaped
physically unhurt. When he had drawn
his legs up and down tive or three times
the attending physicians pronounced him
dead, and he was turned over to his friends
for interment.
The coffin, which was actually buried,
contained nothing but stones. While the
last sad rites were being pronounced, Bill
Langley was well on his way out Of the
country. He has been living since his
supposed execution in Nicaragua, where
he has become leading citizen and one Of
the largest land and cattle herders in Cen
trail America. These who know Campbell
Langley do not hesitate to believe his story,
which he now makes public only because
Sheriff Brown, who oficiated at the sup
posed execution, died in Lee County last
weak
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
RIGHTS OF BALL-PL AYERS.
A Movement To Prevent the Buying and
Sci ing of Them.


n movement To Prevent the buying and
Sci ing of Them.
Boston dispatch.
Now that all other labor troubles are set
lied, or in process of settlement, the base
ball players are coming forward and de-
handing that their claims be satisfied.
With them it is not question of pay or
hours of work, but simply an adjustment
or amendment Of the present methods by
wLick they are bought and sold as COM
pletely as were ever black slaves before
the emancipation proclamation. There is
at present baseball union, called the
brotherhood of League Base Ball Players,
of which Ward, of New York, is Presi-
dent, and before next week is out the
brotherhood will have informed the League
managers fully of what it intends to de-
mand, and the presumption is that most of
it's demands will be satisfied. There is as
yet no talk of strikes or lockouts, and it is
hoped that the settlement will be an amic-
able one, for it is felt on all sides that if
the brotherhood should take the bit in its
teeth the disruption of the National League
would be the result.
The brotherhood is weaker in Chicago
than other cities, only Williamson, Pfetier
and Flint being members, but the Chicago
club has to stand or fall with the League,
and if it is broken in New York, Detroit,
Boston and Philadelphia President Spald-
ing will find his occupation gone. Just as
surely, also, if it comes to fight, the sym
patty of the public will be with the ball
players
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
FRESH FROM The WIRES.
Events of Interest and Importance
i'm Every Quarter of the
Habitable Globe.
News Relating to Politics, Religion,
Commerce, Industry, Labor,
and Other Topics.
THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
COLOR RIOT IN AN ATLANTA sUBURB.


A Drunken Negro Precipitates IA Fight in
Which Several Lives Are Lost.
DECATUR, six miles from Atlanta, was the
scene ON Saturday OF terrible riot between
negroes and whites, the particular OF which
are recited in telegram from Atlanta:
There was an assemblage of negroes TO
attend a Sunday school convention and picnic,
fully 5000 negroes being present Decat'r Is u
dry town, in dry country, but the negroes
seem to have succeeded in getting hold OF
plenty OF whisky. Toward evening II gang OF
the negroes began to grow restless. Few days
ago anegro was lyncbed near Redan not far from
Decatur, and since then tho Me- 70 have been
reported as being uneasy This lynching seems
TO have been freely discussed yester1ny, ana Il
black tough, whose name is given rs Hubbard,
was quite drunk and pullt d Il pistol AMI SAID
he could whip any white man in the county
The preachers Tho we're in charge OF the cele-
bration and others of the sensible and sober
negroes endeavortd to quiet Hubbard, and fail
ing in this sent word to Marsh Il Hurst asking
him to arrest HnbbaId. Hurst and Tom
Shrivers and two others started 70
arrest Hubbard, who fought back. Con-
stable Rogers succeeded in getting Hubbard
pistol from MIN, and they started toward the
police station with him. but after going short
distance were set upon by crowd OF ne
groes who released the prisoner. Hubbard anu
his pals then Ged. The officers got additional
help and started after their man They sur
sooner had they dos SO than the negroes began
firing perfect fusilade. The officers returned
the fire One negro gave himself up to Mar
shall Hurst. and pushing revolver against his
side fired and killed him instantly. Tom
Shrivers was mortally wounded by another ne
bard was found dead and other negroes were
wounded The negroes fed
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
Flashes from the Wires.

VIscoUNT DoNERAuE, who was bitten by q
fox last January, has just died from hydro
phobia
The prosecution Of Mr.. William O'Brien is
treated by the Liberal press of England as a
means to infame Irish passions and give the
Government further pretext for action against
the National League.
1T is stated in Detroit dispatch that Geo
V. n. Lothrop, United States Minister TO Rus
sa, is ON his way home, having resigned, and
that he will succeed Phelps as Minister to
England
Ex-CoNGREssMAN GIBSON, of West Virginia,
was fined ESQ and sent to Jail at Huntington,
in that State, by Judge McGinnis, for con-
tempt of court Gibson and McGnnis have
been at enmity for years, and the former,
whiie trying a case before the Judge, init
mated that he was open to bribery.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
A COLORADO Texas) special to the Chicai

A COLORADO CTexas) special TO the Chicago
Times Gays:
gentleman just in from the upper panhan-
die informs your correspondent that the reports
of loss OF cattle by the Capital Syndi-
cate have not been In the least exag-
gerated The company has thousands more
cattle than IL has water TO supply, and
they are dying by the thousand. One employ
of the syndicate told this gentleman that the
losses for the previous twenty-five days would
average Ave hundred head per day, and at one
large well a herd of cattle, crazed by thirst
crowded on the covering OF the well. which gave
cattle. Seventy-three head were afterward
dragged out Of the hole. The almost entire
absence OF winds for some weeks past has kept
the wind-mills from pumping water. thus cut
ting of almost the entire supply.
AN Austin Tex dispatch says: @The Wash
ington County election cases, which have been
on trial in the United States District Court
here for several days, were brought to a close
by the jury bringing IN a verdict Of Not
guilty on the second count charging destrvc-
ton of ballot boxes by the defendants, and
disagreeing as to the count charging conspir-
acy and interference with officers Judge
Turner in accordance with the verdict de-
clared the defendants not guilty as to the
second count and that there had been a mis-
trial as to the other counts, and they were
continued until the next term Of court"
SIX men have been indicted at Woodstock,
Va, for taking Senator Riddleberger from
Jail, and the Deputy Sheriff who surrendered
the keys to them has also been indicted
Riddleberger, who has been suffering from
mania potu, is convalescing, and will return
to Jail this week to serve the remaining three
days of his sentence.
IT is stated the amount Of money taken by
Norman Roberts, of Baltimore, Md, will
reach s400, COO, which belonged to the Lomain
heirs. He lost $50, coo belonging to his mother
in snacnlation.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
TIE EASTERN STATES.

DISPATCHES from wilkesbarre, Pa, give
particulars OF fierce battle near Nanticoke,
in which 800 miners were engaged:
The combatants were composed OF men of all
nationnlities, Irishmen. Welshmen. Hungarians
and Poles being largely represented. Strangely
enough, the occurrence was inspired by Meth
odist preacher named Taggart. It seems that IL
has been the custom Of several Hungarian and
Polish merchants of Nanticoke 10 send ped
oilers TO Glen Lyon daily to supply cersain
boarding house Keepers. These latter in many
instances are hired by young unmarried men,
who club and live together. They order goods
Of tho peddlers, who trust them. Tho Susque-
hanna Coal Company always selects Saturday
for pay day. Heretofore IL has been their prac>
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
CATcHERs.
NOTES AND COMMENT.

NUIEb MD CUMMENT.
The New York Club are now looking
for new players, and will secure new
pitcher and catcher within few days.
Big Dan Brouthers has an actual bat
ting average of 1884. He has made twenty
one two basers, twelve three basers, and
twelve home runs this season.
On actual hits Thompson leads the
League, with an average Of 1884. Brouth-
ers is second, with 1915. Ward is third,
with 1868; and Wise is fourth, with 1857.
Morrill, and Brouthers have each made
twelve home runs. Jerry Denny has rec
ord of sixty-three runs, Of which nine were
homers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
League Ball Players.

The Ball-players' brotherhood held its in
itial meeting at New York on Sunday, all the
League clubs being represented 1t WAS de
cided to require of the League modification
of the existing form of contract. the principal
change desired being in the release clause,
the object of the brotherhood being to do away
with the buying and selling of players In
the ball-game in New York Captain Arson i'm
posed fine of 1925 on Pfeffsr, of the Chi
Cages, for two misplays, and a row was the
result Pfeffer said he would never pay it,
and the other players stood by him, and he
furthermore gave it out that unless it was re-
mitted no would never play another game with
the Chicagos
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
THE NEW ULM MASSACRE.
Celebration of the Twenty fifth Anniver.
sary of the Battle.
New UIm Mimi telegram

sary OF the Battle.
New Ulm Mimi telegram
Tuesday was the twenty fifth anniversary
of the battle of New Ulm, and the city gave
a right royal welcome to the surviving de-
tenders who, quarter of a century ago.
risked their lives in her defense. 1t was at
a time when the drafts upon Minnesota for
the civil war had taken away many Of her
able bodied citizens, leaving comparatively
few TO defend the iresides. The Indians
seized this opportunity, and then followed
the great Sioux massacre, the most san
GU nary conflict of which was the battle of
New Tim. But Colonel Charles Flandrau,
now of st. Paul, and a few well-armed
men came from st. Peter aud the town was
saved. Numbers of the old defenders were
Mt New Ulm from Mankato, st. Paul, lie
Sueur, st. Peter, and other cities. All the
streets were gayly decorated.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
A Woman Oflice.hOlder.

Miss Minna r.. Pollock is the first lady
ever appointed Commissioner of Deeds in
New York City. She is the daughter of
julius L. Pollock, of Hamburg, Germany,
and Mrs. Elliot Haswell Pollock, of Glas-
gov, Scotland Miss Pollock was born OF
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31

IODINE, hitherto known in nature
only in combination with other ele-
ments, is now found in q free state in
the water of Woodhall Spa, near Lin
coin, in England. The water is colored
O decided brown by the iodine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
The Green Diamond.

THE race for the championship Of the
League is becoming decidedly interesting,
as will be seen by the appended record of the
eight contestlng clubs:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31

THERE is curious law in vogue in
Switzerland, which compels every new
~ married couple to plant trees shortly
after the marriage ceremony. The
trees ordered to be planted on wedding
days are the pine and weeping willow,
but on natal days the suggestive birch
tree is selected.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31

St Louis still maintains long lead in the
American Association pennant race. The
following shows the record of won and lost
games:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03

mel Prouty hitched up his teams and
started out of town. 1t was his in
tention to shake the dust of Bur-
lington from his feet forever, and to
go into camp near the creek for the
night. In the morning he would start
for LIE Roy, which town had made him a
liberal offer to locate there. Just as he
was hating his teams, delegation of
the citizens of Burlington, who were in
dignant at the shabby treatment bestowed
upon Col. Prouty, rode up. 1t was only
with the greatest difficulty that they per-
suaded him to return.
A temporary abiding place was found,
and, in this one room, were the office of
the Burlington Register and the home of
Col. S. S. Prouty and family. A large
flag, hung on cord across the room,
divided the Office from the residence.
From this humble beginning, Col. Prouty
rose till he became one of the most in
fluential men of the State from terri
torial times to the present day.
The Kansas Frontier, established at
Junction City, in 1857, dragged out a
miserable existence till in 1862, under
the management of George E. Drummer,
it came to sudden if not untimely end
An editorial in reference to the great
questions of those stirring times aroused
the ire of the soldiers at Fort Riley, and
they went to ''see the editor" The result
of "seeing" him was that they "pied"
the forms, tore up the paper, put dirt in
the ink, threw the editor out of the win
dow and broke the imposing stone in
two. Some citizens who did not like
this mode of handling private property
held an indignation meeting soon after.
During this meeting bitter quarrel as
to whether the Frontier was loyal
or not arose. A fight followed, and
what little furniture there was in the
meeting-place was broken over the heads
of the wranglers. A few days later
some of the citizens who had opposed
the policy of the paper stirred up the
soldiers again. The editor had disap-
peared when the mob arrived. This time
they completely demolished the presses.
threw the type into the river and burned
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03
THE HEROINE OF GEORGIA,
A Remarkable Woman from Whom Have
Descended Statesmen and Soldiers.

A Remarkable Woman from Whom Have
Descended Statesmen and Soldiers.
One of the most picturesque figures of
Revolutionary days has never been adj
mitted to the pages of history-Nancy
Hart-known throughout the South as
"the giantess' ard the "Heroine of
Georgia"
She lived in the wilderness of Ebert
county and supported herself and her
children by hunting and trapping. Nancy
was over six feet in height and with her
mop of red hair and crossed eyes she as
suredly was not prepossessing. But one
of her contemporaries writes: "Her
voice was quiet and soft, and if she had
the courage of a man she had beneath it
the warm heart of a woman"
She espoused the Wing cause vehe
mently from the first outbreak of the
Revolution. Six British soldiers, when
pursuing deserters, came to her cabin
and demanded food. She cooked them q
good dinner, and while they were eating
it hid their guns, drove away their horses
and, locking the doors, sent word to her
neighbors: 81 have trapped six base
Tories; come and hold them for me-"
During the winter, in the disguise of a
man, she frequently entered the British
camp in Augusta, and carried to Colonel
Clarke the information she gained there.
On one occasion, when freshet rendered
the ford across the s'usquehanna river
impossible, she made raft of logs,
bound together by wild grape-vines, and
crossed triumphantly under the fire of
the enemy to the camp of the Georgia
troops.
Another day, meeting puny little
British soldier on the road, she took his
gun from him and marched him before
her into the Georgian camp.
So great was the confidence of the
colonists in her discretion and valor, that
she was once left by Colonel Clarke in
command of o fort filled with women
and children.
A company of British skirmishers at
tackled it. But Nancy, herself in uni
form, forced the scared women to put on
their husbands clothes and to show them
selves on the walls, while she kept up so
vigorous fire from the old cannon that
the enemy fed and reported the fort to
be fully manned and equipped.
After the war was over Ebert county
was invaded by two or three peaceable
squatters. Nancy fled before them. She
packed her goods on pair of mules and
emigrated into the wilderness of Ken
lucky, declaring that $50 many neighbors
left her no air to breathe"
Among her descendants have been
statesmen and soldiers. Much of their
physical and mental vigor doubtless came
from the old huntress, Nancy Hart
Youths GOulDaniOn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03

the building. A stranger who resem-
bled the editor arrived and was taken
for Mr.. Dummer Frightened, he fed,
and the soldiers pursued him. They 80
terrified him by continued shooting that
he jumped into the river and was
drowned.
E. G. K. Garvey issued the first num-
Der of the Kansas Freeman at Topeka,
July 4, 1866. He had absolutely no Of
flee at first, but published the paper I'M
der tree in the little settlement which
to-day is the beautiful capital of Kansas.
In the initial number, the one printed
page of which measured eight by twelve
inches, the editor stated that 1t was
printed on little hand press with pint
or so of type, owing to the fact that his
large press and material, ordered from
Kansas City, had not yet put in an appear
ance. Their whereabouts were not dis
covered for several months, and the
second number of the paper was not
published till early in the following Oc-
tober.
1t turned out that poor but enterpris-
ing young journalist in a county further
east had captured the press and material
soon after they left Kansas City, and had
been using them ever since, issuing his
modest sheet regularly from another
mans press All freighting to that region
was then done by wagons, and the team
sters who were transporting the printing
material, having never seen the owner,
readily delivered the entire outfit to the
young man at Eudora who met them,
and stated that he had decided not to re-
main at Topeka but to establish himself
at that place instead. In spite of the ill
gotten material, the little paper the ras-
cal published was neat and newsy one,
and when its existence ended, owing to
the fact that the owner of the press had
found and carried it away, it was consid-
erably regretted by its readers.
When the Tribune, now one of the lead
ing papers in the State, was established
at Lawrence, in 1866, by John Speer and
w. W. Ross, it was obliged to pass its
first winter in an unfinished building.
There was no roof on the structure, and
as neither of the editors possessed suffi-
cient money and none of the community
had enough energy to roof it, the Office
went without covering till late in the
following spring. The winter was mild
one, and but few editions were delayed to
the two editors had hard time of it.
During one heavy storm the office was
nearly filled with snow and all proceed
ings were stopped for time. But
Messrs: Speer and Ross dug their office
out and resumed operations with renewed
vigor.
And so, through trials and often
dangers, the pioneer editors of Kansas
fought their way with indomitable en-
ergy, and to-day Kansas and her peer
less advantages are heralded to all the
world by these same pioneers or their
many followers, all happy in prosperity.
Tom p. MORGAN.